What are nature’s strangest creatures?

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The pygmy seahorse certainly is a strange one. At about one inch long, 2.4 centimeters, it is one of the smallest, yet intriguing creatures in the sea and in the spirit of Halloween, its got a pretty good costume too!

I think the hagfish or “slime eel” is one of the strangest, and certainly among the most disgusting of Earth’s creatures. This fish lives in the deep ocean, has four hearts and two brains, no fins, a testicle and an ovary simultaneously, one eye and utilizes a unique method of escaping from its prey: it secretes so much mucous or “slime” that it either wriggles out of a predator’s grasp, or else the predator itself recoils in such horror and disgust that the hagfish can beat a hasty escape. The hagfish can create so much slime that it can turn a 20-liter bucket of water into slime in minutes. Despite being one of the most unpalatable creatures on nature’s menu, they are regularly eaten in Korea and Japan. I certainly wouldn’t want to eat one, but to each their own.

The star-nosed mole is a really weird looking animal. They live in the humid northeastern parts of the United States, and in eastern parts of Canada. The star-nosed mole has 22 mobile, fleshy tentacles attached to their snout, which they use to detect food by touch.